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<div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color);">Apple Store <small>(Japan)</small></div>
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! class="ios-lab" | First store
| class="ios-val" | Apple Ginza, Tokyo — November 30, 2003 (first outside the U.S.)
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| class="ios-val" | Ten, Tokyo to Fukuoka
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| class="ios-val" | Ginza · Marunouchi (Japan's largest) · Omotesando · Shibuya · Kyoto
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Japan hosted the first Apple Store outside America: Ginza, November 2003, a glowing steel band in Tokyo's luxury district that proved the retail concept traveled. The country has been Apple retail's most devoted overseas home since — a market where the [[iPhone]] holds a majority share few countries match.
= The fleet =
Ten stores run from Tokyo's dense cluster (Marunouchi, the country's largest; Omotesando; Shibuya; Shinjuku) through Kawasaki, Nagoya, Kyoto's paper-lantern-inspired hall, Shinsaibashi in Osaka, and Fukuoka. Launch mornings at Ginza and Omotesando — queues, chants, first-buyer ceremonies — are a fixture of Japanese tech culture, and the original Ginza store's rebuild marks the format's first full generational turnover.